Until the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead (2014)
“He was avoiding his guests that morning, and he was not certain why. Unquestionably, it had to do with his conversations—first with Angel, and next with Griffiths.
His steward, Winston, brought his breakfast to the quarterdeck and Hayden ate it perched upon a small bench. He busied himself about the deck then, while the sweltering sun floated up out of the eastern sea.
Hayden climbed to the main-top, ostensibly to examine a check in the top-gallant mast but largely to get up into the cl...ear air and push back his horizon, as though doing so would allow him to see beyond the doubts and questions that troubled him.
He examined the sea at all points with a glass—a desert of watery dunes all moving in train towards the south-west. He heard a laugh below and looked down to find Angel climbing tentatively up the ratlines with Midshipman Gould and a top-man as escort. Upon the rolling ship this was an unnerving exercise for a landsman, and it became even more so as he climbed, for the roll became more pronounced with each rung.MoreLess
His steward, Winston, brought his breakfast to the quarterdeck and Hayden ate it perched upon a small bench. He busied himself about the deck then, while the sweltering sun floated up out of the eastern sea.
Hayden climbed to the main-top, ostensibly to examine a check in the top-gallant mast but largely to get up into the cl...ear air and push back his horizon, as though doing so would allow him to see beyond the doubts and questions that troubled him.
He examined the sea at all points with a glass—a desert of watery dunes all moving in train towards the south-west. He heard a laugh below and looked down to find Angel climbing tentatively up the ratlines with Midshipman Gould and a top-man as escort. Upon the rolling ship this was an unnerving exercise for a landsman, and it became even more so as he climbed, for the roll became more pronounced with each rung.MoreLess
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